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By tracing the footprint of a unremarkable object across the globe, this book provides new ways of thinking about globalisation.
An overview of global politics, the corporate powers who dominate the information age
An analysis of the new communicative strategies of coalition protest movements and how these impact on mainstream media
Balancing and blending ideas of globalization with an understanding of historical and institutional contexts of development is an... Læs mere
This book explores the clash between antitrust, a body of law designed to address market failures in Western democracies, and China, an economic superpower under... Læs mere
This book focuses on the role of translation in a globalising world. Chapters explore the ways in which translation is subject to ideology and power play and focus... Læs mere
This book examines how language is a central resource in transforming migrant women into transnational domestic workers.... Læs mere
This book investigates the relationship between English and personal and national development in the era of globalization. It addresses the... Læs mere
This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining language and social change in the... Læs mere
A critical overview of the cultural innovations emerging from the two major national cultures of the former communist world.
This study argues that, contrary to many assumptions, Yugoslavia and its successor states are deeply embedded in the global history and politics of ‘race’, and that the ambiguities of perceiving ‘race’ in the region’s past and present in fact have complex historical roots. -- .
Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology. -- .